The South will not vote for a Democratic candidate for another few decades, perhaps, because they equate "Democrats" with "Effeminate and pro-Welfare for Blacks" and "Republicans" with "Hard Working WASPy Patriots."

From my empirical analysis, the gulf between the West Coast, Northwestern states, and perhaps Atlantic states with the Southern and Mountain states is too wide of a chasm. We can slogan our way out of this misunderstanding, but this will eventually catch up with us and our political and social mistrust of one another.

I noticed that more and more people who are white conservatives are becoming and more libertarian, perhaps in anticipation of a non-white demographic takeover of the USA which will occur around 2050. Their embrace of libertarianism goes hand in hand with many of their ideas, most of which are very benign, but I get this impression that they they view democracy as "tyranny of the masses". Moreover, they realize that their future "Hard Working WASPy Patriot" will not win hardly any elections after 2050, and so they are creating an ideology which will prepare them for this demographic change, and they are reconciling these ideas with our Founding Fathers.

I agree that Republican does not necessarily equal "Hard working WASPy patriot", but there is more than a little truth in the Democrats being "effeminate and pro-welfare for blacks". In particular, Democrat men ARE pretty unmanly.

The entire reason why Obama got voted into office was not because of his political views but because of his race. Everyone wanted a black president to get voted into office. The music/movie industry fully supported him as well. People ignored the political standpoints and focused on the social part of the elections. I am not saying Obama is a terrible president but i doubt he will get voted back into office.

While it is true that Obama got a huge boost from the novelty of having the first non-white (at least not fully) president of the United States, it is reprehensible to imply that the Republicans deserve power just because of that. If you can think, you would not be voting for Obama and the Democrats in 2012 - you would be voting to keep the Republicans out, the party of crazies and abject failures.

It just boils my blood that there are still people supporting this sad excuse of a political party, when they failed to prevent 9/11, when they lied to get the US into a war that cost trillions in dollars and more in America's international credibility, and when they failed to prevent the housing bubble bursting into the worst economic downturn since the 1920s. And even now, these idiots are unrepentant and if anything, are even more persistent in their worship of the failed deregulation, slash-tax-promote-growth god. They nearly drove the US into a recession with their absolute refusal to countenance compromise during the debt ceiling debate, and its presidential candidates - with the notable exception of Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, both curiously Mormons - are all crazy as hell. Why are the Americans so indulgent with the Republicans anyways? Your people command the world's most influential country - use your power carefully, you have the ability to plunge the planet into a dark age or usher it into another golden one.

Really? Pulling the race card, ABabb? Obama getting elected couldn't have had anything to do with McCain not distinguishing himself as the anti-Bush enough or that clown show that was Sarah Palin running for VP? Moreover, Obama's political views, while they may not be yours (or many other people's at this point in his presidency), were the views of a ton of people in 2008 (you know, because he won - the music/movie industry doesn't cast any electoral ballots). Saying he got elected because of race is both short-sighted and irresponsible.

I think many voters tend to forget to base a president's ability to perform well on what kind of obstacles he has been facing. Obama had to pick up after some of Bush's leftovers. I don't think he's doing the BEST job necessarily, but I think everybody put all their hope in him to be this "American hero," only to realize that not all problems can be solved so everybody can be satisfied. According to the Washington Post, Virginia seems to be a hit or miss. He seems pretty close, but he should make sure to do something to get those last extra votes.

**Obama has a waning chance at turning most of the southern state democratic, but I do see him winning the states he won last year such as Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. Although the south is becoming more and more republican towards the end of Obama's term, the states he won last year show different trends. Virginia leans to the left a little bit nowadays, and Florida is a swing state in its own right, having vastly different demographics compared to other southern states such as Louisiana. I do agree that his influence is lacking in the south and he will likely lose there. I'm not sure if there is much he can do to win over southerners with his planned policies being so liberal.

Obama has a waning chance at turning most of the southern state democrat, but I do see him winning the states he won last year such as Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. Although the south is becoming more an more republican towards the end of Obama's term, the states he won last year show different trends. Virginia leans to the left a little bit nowadays, and Florida is a swing in its own right, having vastly different demographics compared to other southern states such as Louisiana. I do agree that his influence is lacking in the south and he will likely lose there. I'm not sure if there is much he can do to win over southerners with his planned policies being so liberal.

The Republicans’ steady march through the state capitols and governor’s mansions of Dixie continued in Mississippi, where they appear to have captured the state’s House of Representatives from the Democrats for the first time since the aftermath of the civil war.

You say this like it represents a change. But if you are analyzing elections in the South, it makes more sense to look at 1860-1960, and then again at the current situation...but with the party labels reversed. The reversal being due to Johnson and Nixon, who between them moved all of those who had been Southern Democrats firmly into the Republican column. In the South today, the "Party of Lincoln" has become the party of Jim Crow and the Confederacy.